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UNITED STATESi PATENT OFFICE.

LEW'IS E. RISING, OFRIVERTON, CONNECTICUT.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,323, dated August 12, 1884.

(No model.)

To aIZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS E. RIsING, of

shoes, of which the following is a description,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whereA Figure l is a top view. view of the open end. Fig. 3 is a view in cross-section on the line x x. Fig. 4 is a view in section on the line y' y. Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of the heel of the horseshoe, showing the calk removed. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the heel-calk.

The object ofthe improvement is the furnishing ofhorseshoes with detachable calks, so that when calks are Worn out they can be replaced by new ones without theaid of ablacksmith. The mode or manner of arriving at this end is to provide each calk with a dovetailed dowel, sliding into a corresponding dovetailed socket in the shoe, the calk being secured in place by a screw.

Fig. 2 is an end The letter a denotes the horseshoe proper.

The letter Vb denotes a toe-calk, having on the bottom a dovetailed dowel, b', sliding into a correspondingly-shaped groove in the shoe and held in place by the screw c.

The letters d d denote the heel-calks, which are provided with a dovetailed dowel, d', sliding into a corespondinglyshaped groove in the ends of the shoe, and kept in place by the screws e, which run 4through gate-plates' f, which are dovetailed upon their edges, and ttled into correspondiugly-dovetailed sockets.

I claim as my invention- Ahorseshoe, having the heel-call; sockets, in combination with the removableheehcalks d, having tenons d', that iit the sockets, and a gate-plate, f, itting a transverse socket in the heel-calli and heel, Vand held by a screw,c, all substantially as described.

LEWIS E. RISING.`

Witnesses:

.IUsTIN HoDGF., CHAs. WV. CRANE. 

